Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production of missiles that are not yet operational. The Soviet peace-propaganda offensive, much in the minds of all NATO statesmen and their constituents, demanded renewed efforts of U.S. diplomacy. The first limited test-firing of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile was an important step toward regaining free-world confidence in U.S. technical strength, but further discoveries of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee strongly indicated that past mismanagement in the Pentagon might be one reason why the U.S. had lost technical leadership in the first place. Beyond all this was the fact that the free world's hopes...
...afternoon last week, Dwight Eisenhower snapped erect in his seat at the NATO conference table, put on his glasses, and. in firm, clear tones, began to read: "We are in a fast-running current of the great stream of history. Heroic efforts will be needed to steer the world toward true peace. This is a high endeavor. But it is one which the free nations of the world can accomplish." When he had finished, NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan turned to him with quick, wide smiles of congratulation...
...Throughout the Asian rimland there are signs-some faint, some clearly visible-that peace and order have begun to creep into the ascendant. Politically, only one nation-Indonesia -still thrashes in chaos. Economically, inflation has hurt eastern Asia less than some others; several nations, led by Japan, are surging toward prosperity...
South Korea. At 82, Syngman Rhee still holds the country under his thumb. Last year the country picked its Vice President from the opposition, suggesting progress toward a two-party system. But after two attempts on his life, Vice President John M. Chang has stayed at home under heavy personal guard, consulting with his party's members behind barricaded walls. Though the North Korean Communists have kept building up their military strength, the South has been making something of an economic comeback with the help of about $300 million yearly in U.S. aid, but there is danger that...
...Progress toward solving the problem was blocked in the past by the refusal of many companies to recognize that they had a problem, as well as by the fear that a program to help alcoholics would make the company appear to be a home for drunks. But many big corporations have courageously set examples for industry by creating their own programs or joining with other companies in community-type clinics. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. is one of the pioneers, in 1952 underwrote the cost of setting up a consultation clinic at New York University-Bellevue Medical Clinic...